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Offstage America
Offstage America is Michael Ray like you’ve never heard him before.
No stage lights. No script.
This show lives where real life happens, on the road, on the porch, in the woods, at the table. Michael sits down for honest conversations about the things that actually matter: family, faith, the outdoors, sports, music, mental health, giving back, and what it means to build a life you’re proud of.
Guests range from fellow artists, athletes, celebrities and veterans to everyday Americans with real stories worth hearing. Some you’ll recognize instantly. Others you’ll be glad you met here first.
Michael brings a rare perspective from someone who’s toured nationally, topped charts, lived the highs of success, and still stayed rooted in who he is and where he comes from. That makes the conversations relaxed, unfiltered, and real. The kind of conversations that don’t happen on stage or in interviews.
Offstage America isn’t about hype. It’s about real people. It’s about life off the stage and the stories that shape us when no one’s watching.
Episodes
18 episodes
Canceled Flights, Wrong Doors, AI Madness & Full Send Chaos
Michael, Paul, and Brady catch up after a week that somehow included a Florida show, a Texas ad shoot, a birthday trip, a canceled flight, a five hour panic drive to North Carolina, and Michael accidentally trying to get into the wrong Airbnb b...
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Kickin’ It by the Fire...2
Back by the fire for round two, Michael, Brady, and Paul settle in for another anything goes night where the conversation starts loose and only gets wilder from there.Kickin’ It By The Fire 2 brings the guys right back to what made the f...
Kickin’ It by the Fire
Brady, Michael, and Paul are back, this time kicking it in Michael’s backyard in Georgia, sitting around the fire with drinks in hand and nothing off-limits.What starts as a laid-back hang quickly turns into a mix of hilarious stories, w...
Offstage With Dan "Hendo" Henderson
In this episode of Offstage America, Michael Ray sits down with UFC and Pride legend Dan Henderson at Hendo’s Barrel House in Temecula for a raw, unfiltered conversation about the journey from small-town wrestling to the global stage.<...
Offstage With Tanner Usrey & Joell Cooley
This episode of Offstage America comes straight from the table at Cadillac Creek Outfitters — four guys, a few drinks in, and absolutely no plan to keep it on the rails.Michael Ray and Paul sit down with rising artists and songwriters T...
Offstage With Toby Brohlin Cadillac Creek Outfitters
Michael Ray, Paul, and Lil Skinny sit down with Toby Brohlin, the man behind one of the top waterfowl hunting destinations anywhere, after two unreal days in the blind.They talk about how Toby built Cadillac Creek, what hun...
Nashville Recap At The Atomic Inn
After a few packed days in Nashville, the crew sit down to recap their first trip recording together on the road.What started as a simple podcast setup quickly turned into a full Nashville run — six episodes in two days with guests from...
Offstage With Miles Burris
Miles Burris joins Offstage America — former Oakland Raiders linebacker who went from peewee football to the NFL, became a day-one starter, and lived the full “dream turned pressure cooker” experience: draft day, w...
Offstage With Filmore
Country artist Filmore sits down with Michael & Paul on this episode of Offstage America for a conversation that goes deeper than the highlight reel people usually see.Filmore talks about the road that led to his upcoming album Atyp...
Offstage With Ajay Popoff
Before Lit had a hit, they had a Cadillac running on fumes and a steady diet of Del Taco.Michael & Paul hang with Ajay Popoff of Lit and gets into the stuff you don’t always hear — the years of getting passed on, almost running out ...
Offstage With Grayson Russell & Lil'Skinny
We brought in two of our guys for a real fun show: Lil’Skinny (if you’ve been in Nashville longer than 10 minutes, he probably knows your cousin) and Grayson Russell — yes, the redheaded kid from Talladega Nights. And somehow, this tur...
Offstage With Drew Baldridge
Drew Baldridge came up in the music industry the hard way.Michael & Paul sit down with Drew and talk about the early grind. Tour vans, playing anywhere that would have him and what happened when Drew lost his record deal right before...
Offstage With Troy Roker
Michael & Paul sit down with Stuntman Troy and gets into how he went from wakeboarding and extreme sports… to getting paid to do stunts for a living. But what makes this episode hit isn’t just the action — it’s the mindset behind it....
Cadillac Creek: Geese, God, and the Boys
Michael Ray and Paul take Offstage America on the road to Cadillac Creek Outfitters in Amarillo, Texas where the goose hunting has been an absolute massacre (we’re talking hundreds of birds and nonstop action). But the re...
Offstage With Brady Pierce
In the first-ever guest episode of Offstage America, Michael Ray brings Brady Pierce into the hot seat. A professional wrestler, stuntman, actor, and one of the real ones on the team. What starts as a laid-back, no-script hang qui...
Goodbye 2025, Hello Whatever’s Next
In Episode 2, Michael Ray and Paul are back in Michaels living room doing what they do best: shooting from the hip, talking a little trash, and accidentally getting real.As 2025 wraps, the guys recap the year that was...the pressure of r...